earthing loudspeakers

[peez]

Hi all,
need your guidance
Read some stuff on Russ Andrews site re Earthing Loudspeakers, and wondered if anyone had any experience of such a thing?

Basically he says if your drivers have a metal surround there can be a benefit by running an earth lead to the domestic earth from the metal driver surround and would love to hear opinions and experiences.

http://www.russandrews.com/article-Earthing-Loudspeaker-Drivers-driverearthing.htm

 

[Snoo]

Hi all,
need your guidance
Read some stuff on Russ Andrews site re Earthing Loudspeakers, and wondered if anyone had any experience of such a thing?

Basically he says if your drivers have a metal surround there can be a benefit by running an earth lead to the domestic earth from the metal driver surround and would love to hear opinions and experiences.

http://www.russandrews.com/article-Earthing-Loudspeaker-Drivers-driverearthing.htm

Not tried it. But if you want to I'd suggest running the wire from your driver to the turntable earth on your amp (if you have one) rather than running each speaker to it's own mains plug.

 

[SteveC]

This involves earthing the chassis of the speaker elements, which are not in the signal path, to drain any RF pickup. In a review of some of the Tannoy speakers in question it made little or no difference to add this earthing wire and Tannoy's technical papers apparently claim effects in the region of ultrasonics and pickup of RFI (their tweeter goes to 44 KHz -6 dB). IMO it is simply an attempt at product differentiation or marketing or audiophilia nervosa and you should ignore it.